News Implenia team wins $477m contract for Switzerland’s Sisikon Tunnel Swiss engineers Frutiger and Implenia have won a contract worth $477m for work on the Sisikon Tunnel, which will form part of the Axenstrasse road along the shores of Lake…
News Cern wants a €20bn particle accelerator under Switzerland Officials at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, or Cern, yesterday revealed more details of their plans to build a particle accelerator that is at least three times longer than…
News ABB joins effort to generate power in old mine shafts Swiss manufacturer ABB has teamed up with a UK startup developing a system for generating electricity in old mine shafts. Called GraviStore, the system drops heavy weights attached to cables…
Innovation Robot builds dry stone walls all by itself A team at Switzerland’s ETH Zürich university has unveiled an autonomous excavator that can build dry stone walls from randomly shaped boulders and concrete rubble. It picks rocks from a…
News Renzo Piano-designed education centre opens at CERN in Geneva Science Gateway, an education facility at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, has opened to the public. Designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Science Gateway’s tubular structure…
Projects ‘Not an icon’: Swiss architects finish no-nonsense social housing scheme in Paris Basel-headquartered architecture firm Christ & Gantenbein is celebrating the completion of its first Paris project, a 10,500-sq-m, 104-unit social housing development over five floors in the 15th arrondissement. Begun in…
News Webuild wins €157m Swiss highway renovation CSC Costruzioni, the Swiss subsidiary of Italy’s Webuild, is leading the team carrying out a €157m road renovation contract in Switzerland’s southern Ticino canton. CSC Costruzioni holds a 35% stake…
Projects Deceptively old New Aare Bridge opens in Switzerland Basel-headquartered architect Christ & Gantenbein is celebrating the construction of a new bridge it designed over the Aare River serving the town of Aarau in northern Switzerland. The completion ends…